‘She told me the world was made of stories. Nothing else, just stories. And stories about stories.’
-There There., Tommy Orange
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‘You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.’
-White Teeth, Zadie Smith.
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‘She’d liked mommy..Mom was something else. Mom meant you are not yourself but a part of someone else. Belonging to someone else.’
-Night. Sleep. Death. The stars. Joyce Carol Oates
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‘They had no sense of history and so could have no sense of the future.’
-Night. Sleep. Death. The stars., Joyce Carol Oates
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‘It is a mother’s perogative to touch a child.’
-Night. Sleep. Death. The stars., Joyce Carol Oates
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‘The only dream worth having…To never forget your own insignificance…never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you’
-The God of Small Things, A. Roy
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‘The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved…’
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
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‘If you're happy in a dream, does that count?’
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
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‘If there is happiness at age three, it will last until you reach eighty.’
-The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See
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‘When you know someone so well, it’s as if they lose their names.’
-The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason
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‘Better to be a gentle soul than one consumed by anger, resentment and vengeance. Anyone can wage war, but maintaining peace is a difficult thing.’
-There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafa
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‘I think most people are the same. Until they’ve gone somewhere.’
-The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
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‘Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.’
-The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
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‘Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.’
-The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
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‘Sometimes post-eating, usually after a large meal, his body makes sounds like a cooling car after a long drive. I can hear liquids shifting through small spaces.‘
-I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Ian Reid
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“…the thousand seasons—of frogsong, of thunderheads, of first thaws—that hid within the canonical Four.”
-North Woods, Daniel Mason
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“Nothing is more likely to make me abandon something than to be told to do it.”
I feel like this quote gives some Friday energy 😂
-North Woods, Daniel Mason
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“Nothing is more likely to make me abandon something than to be told to do it.”
I feel like this quote gives some Friday energy 😂
-North Woods, Daniel Mason
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“…each morning, the woods seemed thinner, as if the country were slowly showing him what lay within.”
-North Woods, Daniel Mason
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‘…the only part that stays word-for-word in memory is the bit about being born at dawn under a pink sunrise. Isn’t that lovely? Makes me miss a thing I never really had.’
-The Correspondent, Virginia Evans
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A fluid art bloom in shades of yellow, green, blue, and white. There are very few cells, and the center has neurographic art that was drawn in with a gold marker.
I finally got around to embellishing a 6x6 bloom painting I wasn't happy with. Honestly, I'm still not a fan, but it was fun to work on some neurographic art/a zendoodle 🤗!
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It’s not beginning to look a lot like Christmas by any means but she’s so cute just the same 🥰
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“But the one benefit of having a dead mother, is the ability to turn her into an unwavering ally, whether she would have been one or not.”
-Go As A River, Shelley Reed
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‘I read somewhere that laughter is evil in origin, as it requires an object of ridicule, a butt, a fool. A bully is never the butt of his own jokes, is he?’
-The Fury, Alex Michaelides
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‘This big old world, and we only get to go through it once.’
-The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
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‘Words are our tools of resurrection.’
-The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams
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‘There’s no kind of sad in this world that’ll keep it from turning.’
-Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
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‘He didn’t know the first thing about me, Sylvia. We were allergic to each other.’
-Intermezzo, Sally Rooney
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‘In casual conversation it’s better to use words that are gray or beige.’
-Intermezzo, Sally Rooney
New ornaments being hung up today and tomorrow! It’s that Christmas in July vibe 😜💖
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